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I     QUARTERLY     I 


1    VOL.   XXL— APRIL,   1899,— No.   a.     f 


CONTENTS  * 

THE  RECENT  GROWTH  ANDEXPAN-  sic 

SIGN  OF  A  GREAT  UNIVERSITY, 

(  With  Illustrations. }        .     BROOKS  PALMER,  .     .     .          121 

MY  FRATERNITY, C.  A.  WATSON     ....         145 

OBSERVATIONS  ON    THE   RISE  AND 

FALL  OF  CHAPTERS ROBERT  HAROLD  GRIMES,  .         149 

THE  PREPARATION  FOR  THE  LAW     .     EDWIN  L.  MATTEN,      .      .         157 

THE  TWENTY-FOURTH    ANNIVER- 
SARY OF  THE  YALE  CHAPTER,     .     .     JOE  MCSPADDEN,     ...         162 

CONVENTION    OF  SECTION  IV,     ...     WM.  M.  PIATT,       ...         164 

THE    EIGHTH      ANNIVERSARY     OF 

BETA  MU  CHAPTER CHARLES  C.  GADDESS,      .        165 

TAU    GRADUATE    CHAPTER,     DEN- 
VER, COLORADO, WM.  K.  ROBINSON,  M.  D.,        167 

LAMBDA       GRADUATE       CHAPTER, 

DAYTON,     OHIO W.  F.  CHAMBERLIN,    .      .         168 

BOSTON    ALUMNI    DINNER WALTER  TALLMADGE  ARNDT,  169 

NECROLOGY: 

BENJAMIN  F.    RAY, 170 

JOSEPH   COOPER    SPOTSWOOD, 171 

WILLIAM  CHASE  CANNIFF, 171 

MATTHIAS  H.   RICHARDS, 172 

AMONG     THE    EXCHANGES,     ....     NEWTON  D.  BAKER,  JR.,   .         173 

EDITORIAL: 

The  Alumnus  at  Work,  182;  A  New  England  Peti- 
tion, 184;  "My  Fraternity,"  185;  Recent  Graduate 
Movements,  186;  Chapter  Houses  One  of  Our  Needs, 
187. 

CHAPTER  CORRESPONDENCE: 

Wooster  Polytechnic  Institute,  189;  Amherst,  190; 

Yale,  190;  Cornell,  191;  Colgate,  192;  New  York  Uni-  ^fl 

versity,  193;  University  of  Pennsylvania,  193;  La-  J  Ilk 


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fayette,  194;  State  College,  194;  Gettysburg,  195; 
Johns  Hopkins,  196;  Richmond,  196;  Washington 
and  Lee,  197;  Hampden-Sidney,  198;  Roanoke,  198; 

Washington-Jefferson,    199;  Allegheny,  200;    Ohio  fTfl 

Wesleyan,  201;  Ohio  State,  202;  DePauw,  203;  Han- 
over, 204;  University  of  Wisconsin,  204;  Minnesota,  JJ  It 

205;  Knox,  205;  University  of  Illinois,  206;  Nebraska,  

207;  Win.  Jewell,  208;  Bethel,  209;  University  of 
Tennessee,  210;  Trinity,  210;  Lehigh,  211;  Bucknell, 
211. 

POTPOURRI    AND    FIJI    MISCELLANY 212 

HELLENIC  HAPPENINGS 220 


NATIONAL   OFFICERS 

OF    THE 

PHI  GAMMA  DELTA  FRATERNITY 


THE  EKKLESIA 

The  Fifty-first  Annual  Ekklesia  of  the  Fraternity  will  be  held 
at  Dayton,  Ohio,  October,  19,  20  and  21,  1899.  DR.  JOHN 
CLARK  RIDPATH  is  Chairman  of  the  National  Committee. 

president. 

GENERAL  LEW  WALLACE,  CRAWFORDSVILLE,  IND. 

treasurer. 

NEWTON  D.  BAKER,  JR.,  Society  for  Savings,  CLEVELAND,  O. 

General  Secretary 

WILLIAM  EDGAR  GARD,  30  PARK  PLACE,  NEW  YORK. 
Office  of  the  Fraternity,  Room  54. 

©tber  arcbons. 

HORACE  I.  BRIGHTMAN,5o  BROADWAY,  N.  Y. 
DANDRIDGE  SPOTSWOOD,  PETERSBURG,  VA. 

THE  QUARTERLY 

FREDERIC  C.  HOWE,  ....        EDITOR. 

Garfield  Building,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 

ASSOCIATES 

NEWTON  D.  BAKER,  JR.,     -     Society  for  Savings,  Cleveland,  Ohio. 
DANDRIDGE  SPOTSWOOD,  Petersburg,  Virginia. 

JOE  McSPADDEN,  -  -  -          30  Park  Place,  New  York. 


The  Phi  Gamma  Delta  Quarterly,  the  official  organ  of  the  Fraternity, 
is  published  quarterly  in  January,  April,  June  and  October  of  each 
year,  with  one  secret  issue.  The  annual  subscription  is  one  dollar  to 
Alumni;  single  copies  thirty  cents.  Communications  of  a  business  or 
literary  nature  should  be  addressed  to  the  Editor.  Exchanges  to  the 
same;  and  Phi  Gamma  Delta  Fraternity,  30  Park  Place,  New  York,  and 
Dandridge  Spotswood,  Petersburg,  Va. 


Copies  of  the  Chapter  Rolls  and  Directory  and  Fraternity  Song 
Book  can  be  obtained  from  the  publisher,  T.  Alfred  Vernon,  22-26 
Reade  St.,  New  York. 

Information  as  to  changes  in  address,  etc.,  should  be  sent  to  the 
same  address. 


DIRECTORY. 


GRADUATE    CHAPTERS   AND  ASSOCIATIONS. 

Beta Indianapolis,  Ind. ,  C.  M.  Zener 

Delta Chattanooga,  Tenn. ,  Edwin  Boggs 

Epsilon Columbus,  O.,  E.  L.  Pease,  30  Monroe  Ave. 

Zeta Kansas  City,  Mo.,  C.  A.  Lawler,  N.  Y.  Life  Building 

Eta Cleveland,  O.,  S.  A.  Eagleson,  15  Alason  St. 

Theta Williamsport,  Pa. ,  Fred.  A.    Perley 

Iota Spokane,  Wash.,  Geo.  F.  Schorr 

Kappa Chicago, 111.,  Chas.  H.  Stevenson,  Unity  Building 

Lambda Dayton,  O. ,  W.  F.  Chamberlain 

Mu San  Francisco,  Cal. ,  Brooks  Palmer 

Nu New  Haven,  Conn.,  S.  B.  Martin 

Xi New  York  City,  H.  I.  Brightman,  50  Broadway 

Omicron Pittsburg,  Pa.,  E.  L.  Mattern,  Carnegie  Building 

Pi Dr.  Wm.  S.  Wadsworth,  Pres.  Hospital,  Phila.,  Pa. 

Rho Brooklyn,  N.  Y. ,  T.  Alfred  Vernon,  256  Clinton  Ave. 

Sigma Albany,  N.    Y.,    Walter  M.  Swann 

Tau Denver,  Col.,  E.  A.  Silberstein,   Jacobson  Bldg. 

Upsilon Minneapolis,  Minn,  Geo.  F.  Adams,  619  4th  St. ,  S.  E. 

Southern  Alumni  Ass'n Balto.,  Md.,  Jas  E.  Carr,  Jr.,  1026  McCulloh  St. 

Washington  Alumni  Ass'n Washington,  D.  C.,  E.  J.  Prindle,  Pat.  Office 

Richmond  Alumni  Club Richmond,  Va.,  J.  T.  Lawrence,  St.  Bank  Bld'g 

Roanoke  Alumni  Ass'n Roanoke,  Va.,  J.  Campbell  Stras,  N.  &  W.  R.  R. 

Harvard  $  T  A  Club. . .  .Cambridge,  Mass.,  W.  T.  Arndt,  17   Stoughton  Hall 


SECTION  I. 


COLLEGE. 


<£  T.  Alfred  Vernon, 

Worcester  Poly.  Inst.  (II  I),    Jesse  A.  Bloch, 
Amherst  (AX), 
Yale  (N  A), 
Trinity  (T  A), 


Rob't.  M.  Chapin, 
Geo.  W.  Skinner,  Jr. 
R.  S.  Yeomans, 


ADDRESS. 

256  Clinton  Ave.,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 
7.  Everett  St.,  Worcester,  Mass. 
*  T  A  House,  Amherst.  Mass. 
The  Hutchinson,  New  Haven,  Ct. 
Hartford,  Ct. 


SECTION  II. 

$  Dr.  Antoine  P.  Voislawsky,  72  St.  Mark's  Place,  New  York. 

College  City,  New  York,  (T),  C.  A.  Hess,  439  E.  118th  Street,  New  York. 

Columhia  (O),  W.  K.  Ludlam,  604  W.  114th  St.,  New  York. 

Univ.  City  of  New  York  (NE),  Edw.  Frankel,  Jr.,        3>r  AHouse,FordhamHeights,N.Y. 


Colgate  (6*), 
Cornell  (K  N), 
Union  (X), 


Univ.  of  Pennsylvania  (B), 
Lafayette  (S  A), 
Lehigh(BX), 


Bnoknell  (A), 
Pennsylvania  (S), 
Pennsylvania  State  (T  *), 


SECTION  III. 

Dr.  Melbourne  S. Read  Hamilton,  N.  Y. 
Seymour  B.  Weller,      Box  952,  Hamilton,  N.  Y. 
Geo.  Young,  Jr.,  $  T  A  House,  Ithaca,  N.  Y. 

A.  H.  Robinson,  «£  T  A  House,  Schenectady,  N.  Y. 


SECTION 

Walter  C.  Stier, 
Albert  B.  Dissel, 
Antonto  Braga, 
Newton  W.  Buch, 

SECTION 

William  L.  Kurtz, 
F.  G.  Ballentine, 
Wm.  H.  McNair, 
Wm.  F.  Ross, 


IV. 

Easton,  Pa. 

3604  Walnut  St.,  Philadelphia. 

Easton,  Pa. 

76  Market  St.,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 


V. 


Lewisburg,  Pa. 
Lewisburg,  Pa, 
Gettysburg,  Pa. 
State  College,  Pa. 


FRATERNITY  DIRECTORY 

(  Continued} 


COLLEGE. 


SECTION    VI. 


ADDRESS. 


Johns  Hopkins  (B  M), 
Univ.  of  North  Carolina  (E), 
Univ.  of  Virginia  (0), 
Roanoke  (B  A), 
Hampden-Sidney  (A  A), 

J.  C.  Stras, 
Chas.  E.  Ford,  Jr., 
Warren  L.  Kluttz, 
Jas.  B.  Bullitt,  Jr., 
M.  D.  McBride, 
W.  C.  Bell, 

Roanoke,  Va. 

*  T  A  House,  Hamilton  Terrace,   Balto 

Chapel  Hill,  N.  C. 

<£  T  A  House,  University  of  Virginia,  Va 

Salem,  Va. 

Hampden-Sidney,  Va. 


Washington  and  Lee  (Z  A),     R.  W.  Flournoy,  Jr.,  Lexington,  Va. 
Eichmond  (P  X),  Allen  W.  Freeman,       Richmond,  Va. 

SECTION    VII. 

$  Stuart   Eagleson,*  Columbus,  0. 

Washingt'n  and  Jeffers'n,  (A),  Thomas  Patterson,  Washington,  Pa. 

Allegheny  (II),  Paul  Eaton,  Meadville,  Pa. 

Wittenberg  (S),  Patterson  Cartmell,  Springfield,  0. 

Ohio  Wesleyan  (6  A),  J.  D.  Fender,  Delaware,  0. 

Denison    (A  A),  D.  T.  Felix,  Granville,  0. 

Ohio  State  (0  A),  J.  P.  Eagleson,  Columbus,  0. 

Wooster  (PA),  H.  M.  Gage,  Wooster,  0. 

*  Address  all  mail  in  care  of  Ginn  &  Co.,  219  Town  St.,  Columbus,  Ohio,  marked  "Personal. 


Indiana  (Z), 
DePauw  (A), 
Hanover  (T), 
Wahash    * 


Univ.  of  Tennessee  (K  T), 
Bethel  (N), 


Illinois  Wesleyan  (A  A), 
Knox  (T  A), 
Univ.  of  Illinois  (XI), 
Univ.  of  Minnesota  (MS), 
Univ.  of  Wisconsin  (M), 


Univ.  of  Kansas  (II  A), 
William  Jewell  (Z  *), 
Univ.  of  Nebraska  (AN), 


Univ.  of  California  (AS), 


SECTION    VIM. 

Dr.  Wilmer Christian,  230  N.  Penna  .St.,  Indianapolis,  Ind. 
Elmer  E.  Scott,  Bloomington,  Ind. 

Jno.  G.  Igleheart,         Greencastle,  Ind. 
V.  B.  Scott,  Hanover,  Ind. 

Edward  Scott,  Crawfordsville,  Ind. 


SECTION    IX. 


Prof.  H.  J.  Darnall, 
Gilbert  McCulloch, 
A.  M.  Thomas, 


Univ.  of  Tenn.,  Knoxville,  Tenn. 

U.  ot  T.,  Knoxville,  Tenn.,  Mt.  Vernon, 

Russellville,  Ky. 


SECTION  X. 

Geo.  F.  Adams,  619  4th  St.,  S.  E.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Eldin  Roy  Haynes,  Bloomington,  111. 

H.  H.  Boggs,  Galesburg,  111. 

R.  C.  Bryant.  Urbana,  111. 

G.  Foster  Smith.  619  4th  St.,  S.  E.,  Minneapolis,  Minn. 

Max  Wilder  Griffith,  613  Francis  Street,  Madison,  Wis. 

SECTION  XI. 

D.  D.  Gear,  Kansas  City,  Mo., 

E.  Fletcher,  1015  Tenn.  St.,  Lawrence,  Kan. 
Miller  Stone,  Liberty,  Mo. 

Edw.  R.  Harvey,  2212  Washington  St.,  Lincoln,  Neb. 

SECTION  XII. 

Brooks  Palmer,  414  California  St.,  San  Francisco,  Gal 

Wm.  Durbrow,  4>  F  A  House,  Berkeley,  Gal. 


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Vol.  21— APRIL,  i899—No.  2. 


THE    RECENT    GROWTH   AND    EXPANSION   OF   A 
GREAT  UNIVERSITY. 

The  progress  of  our  American  universities  is  a  matter  of  sin- 
cere interest  to  every  public-spirited  citizen,  even  though  his 
own  educational  opportunities  may  have  been  extremely  limited 
Men  who  have  never  lived  in  a  university  atmosphere  share  with 
us  a  sense  of  civic  pride  as  they  watch  the  steady  march  and 
occasional  great  strides  of  a  university.  The  college  man  unites 
with  this  a  feeling  of  deep  personal  gratification,  realizing  that 
he  himself  is  to  some  extent  an  element  in  that  progress.  But 
the  relation  of  the  fraternity  man  to  his  university  comprehends 
both  of  these  and  much  more,  for  the  bonds  established  by 
brotherhood  and  close  personal  association  are  self-sustaining 
and  self-perpetuating  and  bind  him  with  peculiar  power  not  only 
to  his  own  chapter  and  alma  mater,  but  to  all  chapters  and  all 
institutions  in  which  they  exist.  Every  Phi  Gamma  Delta  man 
is  specially  interested  in  the  evolution  of  institutions  where  his 
brothers  are  organized  and  laboring  in  the  upbuilding  of  the 
fraternity.  These  reflections  justify  us  in  directing  our  attention 
at  this  time  to  the  recent  progress  and  approaching  architectur- 
al transformation  of  the  University  of  California. 

To  one  who  has  not  followed  with  some  care  the  details  of 
the  settling-up  process  in  California,  and  who  does  not  realize 
the  fact  that  the  general  conditions  of  culture  and  civilzation 
are  much  the  same  there  as  in  the  East,  the  existence  of  a  great 
university  in  the  far  West  is  somewhat  of  an  anomaly.  The 
publicity  given  to  the  Stanford  University  has  in  large  measure 


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corrected  this  misconception,  but  even  to-day  the  two  institu- 
tions are  often  confused  in  the  public  mind  and  the  Stanford 
University  is  regarded  as  the  state  institution.  These  are  both 
truly  noble  institutions,  and  institutions  too  with  which  many 
of  our  children  and  children's  children  in  the  onward  and  west- 
ward course  of  progress  will  become  identified,  but  with  all  its 
millions  and  prestige  Stanford  does  not  seem  to  have  the  stu- 
pendous prospects  of  the  State  University  at  Berkeley,  backed 
as  it  is  by  the  wealth  of  the  state  and  by  a  prospective  private 
munificence  unparalleled  in  the  history  of  education. 

The  University  is  only  about  thirty  years  old.  The  land  con- 
sists of  about  250  acres  within  the  town  of  Berkeley,  opposite 
the  Golden  Gate,  and  extends  back  to  the  summit  of  the  hill. 
The  buildings  are  situated  on  rising  ground  at  the  base  of  the 
hills,  flanked  on  either  side  by  a  picturesque  creek,  and  to  the 
front  and  west  commanding  a  beautiful  view  of  the  Bay  of  San 
Francisco  and  the  Golden  Gate. 

While  it  is  true  that  the  location  and  environment  of  an  insti- 
tution of  learning  and  the  character  of  its  habitation  do  not  de- 
termine its  relative  merit,  yet  these  are  often  quite  formative 
factors  in  giving  character  and  individuality  to  such  an  institu- 
tion, and  in  qualifying  the  influence  which  it  exerts.  In  this 
respect  a  university  is  much  like  an  individual.  Its  environment 
not  only  powerfully  influences  it  and  imparts  to  it  a  certain 
tone  and  color,  but  it  becomes  a  well-nigh  inseparable  part  of 
it,  and  more  or  less  consciously  or  unconsciously  its  imprint  is 
left  in  the  lives  of  its  students.  And  so  it  is  with  the  Univer- 
sity of  California.  Situated  as  it  is,  commanding  the  great 
gateway  to  the  Orient  and  one  of  the  finest  harbors  in  the  world, 
flourishing  under  climatic  conditions  which  permit  of  flowers 
and  more  or  less  of  an  outdoor  life  all  the  year  around,  and  redo- 
lent of  evergreen  trees,  of  a  certain  aromatic  and  invigorating 
dryness  in  summer  and  autumn,  and  of  a  natural,  uncultivated, 
rugged  freshness  in  winter  and  spring  which  reminds  one  of  the 
simple  but  gorgeous  orange-colored  wild  poppies  to  be  gathered 
on  its  hill  sides;  the  University  has  acquired  a  characteristic  tone 
and  spirit  peculiarly  its  own,  rugged,  virile,  free,  spontaneous, 
and  natural  without  being  crude. 


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In  one  respect  the  University  has  in  the  past  failed  to  come 
to  a  complete  self-consciousness  of  its  existence  as  a  university. 
This  has  been  owing  to  two  conditions  unfavorable  to  the  de- 
velopment of  an  outspoken,  assertive  university  spirit.  One  of 
these  conditions  has  been  the  absence  of  any  worthy  rival  for 
thousands  of  miles;  another  has  been  the  absence  of  a  dormitory 
system,  and  the  fact  that  only  a  small  percentage  of  students 
resided  in  the  college  town,  the  larger  number  residing  in  neigh- 
boring cities  within  easy  reach  around  the  bay.  The  metropo- 
lis is  too  handy.  The  first  of  these  evils  has  been  remedied  by 
the  institution  of  Stanford  University,  with  a  resulting  healthful 
rivalry.  The  second  is  being  remedied  partly  by  the  influx  of 
students  from  distant  homes,  partly  by  better  and  cheaper 
boarding  accommodations  for  students  in  the  college  town, 
partly  by  the  fraternity  club  houses,  and  now  the  University  is 
calculating  on  building  dormitories. 

With  respect  to  its  scope  and  internal  equipment,  its  courses 
of  instruction,  and  its  personnel,  much  the  same  might  be  said 
of  it  as  would  be  detailed  of  any  complete  and  comprehensive 
institution  of  higher  learning,  although  it  may  well  be  humored 
in  the  conviction  that  a  number  of  its  faculty  are  absolutely  un- 
replaceable. 

The  academic  department  is  housed  at  Berkeley  and  consists 
of  the  following  separate  colleges — Letters,  Social  Sciences, 
Natural  Sciences,  Agriculture,  Mechanics,  Mining,  Civil  Engi- 
neering, Chemistry,  and  Commerce,  the  last  of  which  was  estab- 
lished in  1898.  The  original  University  had  no  affiliations  out- 
side of  Berkeley,  but  from  time  to  time  various  acquisitions  have 
been  made  so  that  now  the  interests  of  the  University  in  other 
parts  of  the  state  are  about  as  numerous  and  diversified  as  those 
in  the  college  town. 

The  Lick  Observatory  was  the  gift  of  Mr.  James  Lick  and 
dates  from  1875.  The  reservation  consisting  of  2581  acres  was 
acquired  chiefly  by  congressional  and  state  grants,  while  the 
telescope  was  until  very  recently  the  most  powerful  in  the  world. 

The  professional  colleges  of  Law,  Medicine,  Dentistry,  Phar- 
macy, and  Veterinary  Science,  in  San  Francisco,  were  added 
from  time  to  time,  the  first  having  a  separate  endowment,  the 


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others  being  supported  by  students'  fees.  Until  recently  these 
colleges  were  scattered  throughout  the  city,  but  they  are  now 
about  to  be  assembled  in  new  $250,000  quarters  just  completed. 
The  site  is  the  gift  of  the  late  Adolph  Sutro,  of  "Cliff  House" 
and  "Sutro  Tunnel"  fame,  and  in  many  respects  rivals  the 
Berkeley  site  in  beauty  of  location,  being  on  a  bench  cut  out  on 
the  slopes  of  a  wooded  hill  and  commanding  a  panoramic  view 
of  the  western  part  of  the  city,  the  bay,  Golden  Gate,  ocean,  and 
Golden  Gate  Park. 

The  Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art,  valued  at  millions,  was 
given  to  the  University  for  purposes  indicated  by  its  name  in 
1893,  by  Edward  F.  Searles.  The  interior  of  this  building  is  a 
revelation  of  richness  in  decoration  and  ornamentation.  By  a 
strange  coincidence  of  juxta-position,  adjoining  the  Institute  on 
the  east  and  occupying  the  remaining  half  of  the  block  are  the 
residence  and  grounds  of  Mrs.  Jane  Stanford,  which  will  ulti- 
mately pass  to  the  Stanford  University  and  be  dedicated  to  uses 
similar  to  those  of  the  Mark  Hopkins  Institute  of  Art.  These 
two  institutions,  situated  on  one  of  the  highest  hills  in  the  city, 
will  undoubtedly  form  the  greatest  art  center  on  the  Pacific 
Coast. 

The  Wilmerding  School  of  Technical  Arts,  for  which  an  en- 
dowment of  $400,000,  was  made  by  the  late  J.  C.  Wilmerding, 
is  also  to  be  situated  at  San  Francisco. 

The  latest  gift  of  land  to  the  University  is  one  which  appeals 
to  us  not  only  from  the  utilitarian  but  primarily  from  the  senti- 
mental point  of  view.  It  is  preeminently  a  princely  and  beau- 
tiful gift  and  adds  1800  acres  to  the  domain  of  the  University, 
besides  a  fine  mansion  valued  at  half  a  million.  We  refer  to 
the  Flood  tract  at  Menlo  Park  deeded  to  the  University  last 
September  by  Miss  Cora  Jane  Flood.  The  tract  is  in  a  land  of 
oaks  scarcely  less  beautiful  than  those  of  Berkeley.  Six  hun- 
dred acres  of  cultivated  land  surround  the  house,  the  remaining 
acreage  being  marsh  land  which  can  be  made  profitable.  The 
property  is  self-supporting  and  can  be  made  the  source  of  con- 
siderable income.  The  house,  which  is  much  admired  for  its 
fine  architectural  lines,  was  turned  over  completely  furnished. 
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be  maintained  by  the  Board  of  Regents  for  a  period  of  fifty 
years.  The  country  seats  of  many  of  Calfornia's  millionaires 
are  close  at  hand,  and  curiously  enough  the  Stanford  University 
tract  is  almost  immediately  adjoining. 

This  completes  the  list  of  the  University's  outside  possessions. 
Like  most  other  pro  ducts  of  California,  the  University  of  to-day 
is  the  result  of  a  marvelously  rapid  growth,  particularly  rapid 
during  the  last  ten  years.  The  recent  increase  in  the  number  of 
students  at  Berkeley  is  phenomenal.  From  400  in  1890,  the 
attendance  has  run  up  to  1600  at  present,  bringing  the  total 
number  of  students  in  all  departments  of  the  University  up  to 
2400  Practically  the  same  quarters  which  accommodated  the 
400  of  1890  afford  shelter  for  the  1600  at  present,  but  the  con- 
gestion became  almost  unbearable  and  a  steady  demand  for 
additional  buildings  arose.  For  a  time  huge  tents  were  put  up 
on  the  campus  and  classes  held  in  them,  but  the  experiment  was 
far  from  satisfactory,  each  student  being  thereby  converted  into 
a  sort  of  animate,  self-registering  and  protesting  theremometer. 
While  these  discomforts  were  being  endured  and  various  plans 
for  relief  being  considered,  Instructor  B.  R.  Maybeck,  a  devoted 
friend  of  the  University,  and  one  of  those  long-headed  men  gift- 
ed with  prophetic  vision,  evolved  the  idea  of  replacing  the  pres- 
ent structures  by  a  magnificent  harmonious  group  of  buildings, 
in  the  planning  of  which  the  greatest  artichectural  geniuses  of 
the  age  should  share,  and  which  should  be  built  on  a  scale 
requiring  a  score  or  more  of  years  for  its  completion.  This  may 
have  been  a  dream  of  Mr.  Maybeck 's,  but  it  was  more  than  that 
and  he  did  not  dismiss  it  at  that.  It  was  the  free,  spontaneous, 
virile  spirit  of  the  place  and  institution  demanding  its  full  ex- 
pression in  concrete  form  that  spoke  through  him.  He  talked 
and  planned,  and  others  talked  and  schemed,  and  finally  Mrs. 
Phebe  Hearst,  already  a  friend  and  benefactor  of  the  Univer- 
sity, beloved  not  only  for  her  boundless  generosity  but  for  her 
personal  charm,  had  a  dream,  a  vision  of  the  new  University  of 
California,  a  vista  of  architectural  glory  which  she  should  help 
to  inaugurate  and  bring  into  existence.  The  spirit  of  Berkeley 
had  asserted  itself  through  her  too.  She  responded  to  it  and 
soon  by  her  munificence  the  beginning  and  prosecution  of  Mr. 


134  PHI  GAMMA  DELTA  QUARTERLY 

Maybeck's  idea,  and  in  fact  the  possibility  and  practicability  of 
the  whole  scheme,  was  assured.  Berkeley  is  to  have  a  magnif- 
icent habitation  in  harmony  with  its  beautiful  site  and  consist- 
ent with  its  high  standing,  thus  exemplifying  the  lofty  senti- 
ments of  Professor  Charles  Eliot  Norton,  of  Harvard,  when  he 
says,— 

"No  one  denies  that  noble  and  beautiful  buildings,  in  noble 
association  and  well  designed  for  the  purposes  for  which  they 
are  intended,  become  more  and  more  impressive  from  generation 
to  generation  as  they  become  more  richly  invested  with  associa- 
tions of  human  interest.  The  youth  who  lives  surrounded  by 
beautiful  and  dignified  buildings  to  which  inspiring  memories 
belong,  cannot  but  be  strongly  affected  (lessor  more  conscious- 
ly or  unconsciously,  according  to  his  native  sensibilities  and 
perceptions)  by  the  constant  presence  of  objects  that,  wrhile 
pleasing  and  refining  the  eye,  cultivate  his  sense  of  beauty,  and 
arouse  not  only  poetic  emotion,  but  his  sympathy  with  the  spirit 
and  generous  efforts  of  his  distant  predecessors.  His  inward 
nature  takes  on  an  impress  from  the  outer  sight.  He  may  need 
help  at  first  to  discern  the  expression,  in  the  work,  of  the  beauty 
which  it  embodies,  but  he  needs  no  help  to  feel  its  dignity  and 
venerableness. " 

Ten  million  dollars  have  already  been  secured,  and  more  will 
be  on  hand  when  needed,  to  carry  on  this  work  which  when 
completed  will,  in  the  words  of  Mr.  Burnham,  the  architect  of 
the  World's  Fair  buildings,  "be  a  work  many  times  the  magni- 
tude of  the  buildings  for  the  World's  Fair.  The  world  has  nev- 
er seen  such  a  plan  on  such  a  scale  before  that  was  carried  to  a 
completion."  Mrs.  Hearst,  now  a  Regent  of  the  University, 
the  grand  woman  to  whom  the  inception  of  this  work  is  due  and 
the  ultimate  extent  of  whose  benefactions  to  the  University  is 
even  now  a  matter  of  conjecture  to  the  public,  will  herself  build 
one  of  the  buildings  as  a  memorial  to  her  late  husband.  The 
expense  of  the  architectural  competition  for  plans,  amounting 
already  to  $100,000,  is  also  being  borne  by  her.  This  competi- 
tion was  thrown  open  to  the  architects  of  the  world,  and  to  the 
municipality  of  Antwerp  were  intrusted  the  details  of  receiving 
and  judging  the  plans.  A  jury  of  five  was  selected,  and  this 
jury  met  in  Antwerp  last  October  to  judge  the  plans  which  were 
then  in  the  care  of  the  city.  They  selected  the  five  which  they 
considered  best  and  among  these  distributed  $26,000  in  prizes. 


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THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  139 

All  were  from  the  Ecole  des  Beaux  Arts  of  Paris,  but  three  of 
them  are  Americans.  The  competitors  were  hampered  by  no 
restrictions  or  limitations  as  to  cost  of  the  proposed  structures  ; 
each  was  allowed  the  freest  scope  in  the  exercise  of  his  highest 
powers.  Nothing  is  to  be  omitted,  nothing  stinted.  If  addi- 
tional land  is  needed  it  will  be  acquired  by  condemnation  pro- 
ceedings. Accommodations  are  to  be  provided  sufficient  for 
5000  students,  including  auditoriums,  armory,  gymnasium,  li- 
brary, machinery  building,  observatory,  conservatory,  dormitor- 
ies, in  fact  all  the  various  structures  which  human  forethought 
can  suggest  as  suitable  accessories  to  a  great  university.  And 
this  is  to  be  no  loose  aggregation  of  buildings  but  an  imposing 
and  inspiring  group  made  up  of  harmonious  elements,  a  creation 
which  shall  be  a  striking  fulfillment  of  the  verses  of  Bishop 
Berkeley  on  the  Prospect  of  Planting  Arts  and  Learning  in 
America  when  he  wrote 

"Westward  the  course  of  empire  takes  its  way  ; 
The  four  first  Acts  already  past, 
A  fifth  shall  close  the  drama  with  the  day  ; 
Time's  noblest  offspring  is  the  last." 

The  five  successful  competitors  are  now  visiting  Berkeley  and 
are  making  a  careful  study  of  the  University  site  and  of  the  re- 
quirements and  also  of  the  surrounding  landscape.  They  are 
then  to  return  to  their  homes  and  prepare  definite  plans  which 
are  to  be  submitted  to  the  same  preliminary  jury  which  judged 
the  plans  in  Antwerp,  with  the  addition  of  four  architects  chos- 
en from  a  list  of  five  names  each  sent  in  by  the  five  architects 
who  are  entitled  to  compete  for  the  final  plan. 

Such  is  the  record  of  the  recent  growth  and  expansion  of  the 
University  of  California,  and  such  are  its  splendid  prospects. 
We  are  proud  of  it  as  an  American  University  ;  we  are  proud  of 
it  as  students  and  graduates  of  American  universities  ;  and  we 
are  proud  of  it  as  brothers  in  Phi  Gamma  Delta. 

Within  the  immediate  sphere  of  influence  of  this  University 
are  two  chapters  of  Phi  Gamma  Delta,  Delta  Xi,  at  Berkeley, 
and  Mu  Graduate,  at  San  Francisco.  Both  of  these  have  drawn 
their  strength  and  vitality  largely  from  the  University,  and  we 
believe  and  trust  too  that  they  have  been  elements  of  strength 
and  stability  in  its  development.  We  are  proud  of  the  history 


140  PHI  GAMMA  DELTA  QUARTERLY 

of  Delta  Xi,  a  history  of  perseverance  and  fraternal  loyalty, 
in  the  early  part  of  which  such  names  as  John  H.  Schutte, 
I.  I.  Brown,  Arthur  Bachman,  andE.  W.  Hill,  played  a  very  prom- 
inent part.  Now  the  days  of  adversity  have  passed  and  Delta 
Xi  is  in  a  position  to  share  in  the  growing  strength  of  the  Uni- 
versity, to  take  in  its  full  complement  of  members,  and  to  be- 
come one  of  the  largest  and  strongest  chapters  of  the  fraternity. 
But  the  University  has  set  a  very  rapid  pace,  and  inter-frater- 
nity competition  is  very  keen,  so  that  we  can  by  no  means  af- 
ford to  rest  under  the  false  security  of  any  assumed  superiority. 
Our  prospects  and  opportunities  at  Berkeley  are  most  encourag- 
ing, and  we  hope  and  trust  that  our  chapter  there  will  continue 
to  be  maintained  with  all  the  enterprise  and  vitality  character- 
istic of  the  institution  in  which  it  is  established. 

Mu  Graduate  Chapter  is  composed  largely  of  Delta  Xi  alumni 
with  a  considerable  number  of  highly  appreciated  alumni  from 
the  East.  This  chapter  also  shares  in  the  destiny  of  the  Uni- 
versity of  California  and  of  the  active  chapter  at  Berkeley.  It 
will  undoubtedly,  as  the  years  go  by  and  new  accessions  to  its 
ranks  are  received,  exert  a  strong  influence  in  keeping  the 
alumni  in  the  West  in  touch  with  each  other,  as  well  as  be  a 
source  of  helpfulness  to  the  local  active  chapters.  Prominent 
among  the  most  enthusiastic  members  are  Prof.  W.  H.  Ham- 
mon,  of  the  United  States  Weather  Bureau,  Ralph  L.  Hathorn, 
J.  Alfred  Marsh,  and  Victor  L.  O'Brien,  attorneys  at  law,  and 
Wallace  W.  Everett,  in  the  wood  and  iron  business,  the  pres- 
ent officers  of  the  chapter. 

These  are  times  of  opportunity  for  fraternities  in  the  far  west ; 
opportunity  to  build  up  strong,  vigorous  chapters.  Events  are 
succeeding  each  other  there  in  the  line  of  educational  interests 
with  great  rapidity  ;  in  fact  California  seems  to  be  in  the  midst  of 
a  sort  of  educational  boom,  and  a  very  healthy  and  substantial 
one  too.  The  field  is  worthy  of  the  laborer,  and  as  fraternity 
men,  as  Phi  Gamma  Delta  men,  the  opportunity  and  responsi- 
bility is  ours  of  maintaining  chapters  there  which  shall  repre- 
sent the  highest  and  best  in  the  onward  and  upward  movement 
of  the  day. 

BROOKS  PALMER. 

San  Francisco. 


AN  APPROACH  TO  THE  CINDER  TRACK, 

IN    THE    GROUNDS    OF    THE    UNIVERSITY    OF    CALIFORNIA, 

BERKELEY,  CAL. 


BROOKS    PALMER, 
PHULARKOS  OF  PHULE  XII.,  UNIVERSITY  OF  CALIFORNIA  CHAPTER, 

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